The Plague Dogs would be most welcome, as Martin Rosen says Criterion passed on the title while working with him on Watership Down. Though it doesn't enjoy the stature of its predecessor, that's an oversight which might alleviated with the right treatment (and branding). It's a great film and one that, like another John Hurt title from the era, remains sadly relevant today. "These men are not masters --"

bainbridgezu wrote:The Plague Dogs would be most welcome, as Martin Rosen says Criterion passed on the title while working with him on Watership Down. Though it doesn't enjoy the stature of its predecessor, that's an oversight which might alleviated with the right treatment (and branding). It's a great film and one that, like another John Hurt title from the era, remains sadly relevant today. "These men are not masters --"

That's absolutely astonishing. Plague Dogs is arguably a stronger film than Watership, and one of the very finest movies of the 80's. Rosen's full cut of it is only available as an R4 disc or, if you're fortunate to see it, a 35mm print.

swo17 wrote:Under the Flag of the Rising Sun would be a nice addition. No idea of the rights situation though.

Home Vision's DVD was part of the Classics Collection and those were all Janus titles, so it might still be with Janus/Criterion (Fall Guy was the only other Fukasaku title that HVe released that was a Classics Collection title and Criterion definitely still has that one.)

Someone at the Blu-ray forum pointed this out: Cops vs Thugs special features initially said

• Audio commentary by film scholar Tom Mes
• New video interview with film scholar & Fukasaku biographer Sadao Yamane
• Sympathy for the Underdog, a new visual essay on Fukasaku's career by Marc Walkow

but has been changed to

• Beyond the Film: Cops vs Thugs, a new video appreciation by Fukasaku biographer Sadao Yamane
• A new visual essay on cops & criminals in Fukasaku's works by film scholar Tom Mes

So, it appears that they inadvertently announced they have Sympathy for the Underdog

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The trailer for Evil Ed is pretty bad. The horrid dubbing might even make it insufferable. Why is Arrow not including the original Swedish language track? (assuming there is one)[/quote]

The movie was made in "English" there is no swedish dub as fas as I know. So pretty much insufferable even for me as a native Swede.

I'm going to say Who'll Stop the Rain for the image of the dog, just announced by Twilight Time in the US and based on the book Dog Soldiers. Don't know if it is Academy material per se, but that's my wager anyhow.

Pretty solid month, all-around (Academy-wise anyway); a bit surprised we didn't get the US release of the Three Films by Jacques Rivette announced considering it's the last of their "catch-up" releases that they've telegraphed. If their lineup looks like this each month for the rest of the year I don't think that'd be too bad.

I think I'll assume one will be in the likely-coming Nikkatsu Guys 3 and it'll be, like the first one, a fairly low-profile title. If it ends up being a box or something of some of his other stuff that'd be great too, obviously. The fact he mentions UK/US seems to indicate it won't be the titles Criterion put out, either.